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Oracle - Kalypso PLM Vivo

If you are the person responsible for brand innovation at your company, you are probably facing new challenges as the current marketplace drives an increased focus on consumer value, streamlined supply chains, and consumer safety.

Brand protection is more important than ever as you develop and expand your Own brand strategies - especially given the impact product recalls have made on the industry and on consumer confidence. Introducing products to market quickly while supporting a global new product development environment is essential to gaining competitive advantage and locking in profit margins.

To navigate these challenges, leading private brand retailers are focusing on deploying collaborative innovation as a winning strategy. Kalypso and Oracle are helping companies, like Whole Foods Market, SuperValu, Albert Heijn, and Morrisons to develop solutions that accelerate innovation, growth, and business improvement opportunities through enhanced collaboration.

We would like to invite you to talk about PLM VIVO, a pre-configured PLM solution designed for rapid implementation for branded consumer goods and the retail industry, enabling companies to reduce the time, investment, and effort to deploy PLM.

Our clients are finding that by implementing the automated Oracle PLM VIVO solution, they are achieving the following example results:

• Reduced time to market by up to 60% - by giving the organization needed focus and consumer insight on key priorities
• Reduced error reduction from Idea to Contract Manufacturing by 50-65% - by providing developers with a single version of product truth and conveying this accurately to suppliers
• Reduced private brand operational costs by 25% - by reducing hard costs of courier fees, re-work, and improving the sourcing process on new items
• Reduced labeling cycle time from 45 days to 7 - Reducing brand proliferation, better briefing and execution process
• $6.5M annual savings from new PLM foundation and product optimization - getting a clear path to profitability for true breakthrough innovation

Please contact me at graham@sustainableinnovations.biz if you have questions about how these product development tools can work for you.

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Resources

• Kalypso: Collaborative Innovation Strategies for Private Brand/Own Brand Retail
• Oracle - Kalypso: Balance Increasing Consumer Demand While Reducing Cost and Risk with Agile PLM, with Ahold case study
• Oracle: Oracle PLM for Private Label